Waking Up to the Possibilities: Angela’s Story
A digital story about horses, music, school and dyslexia and how they fit together. The story of Angela, a songwriter, and some of her experiences with dyslexia. Created to raise …
Time for a Change: Learning Disabilities or Abilities?
This guide was written to help literacy tutors and their adult students understand the often hidden impacts of learning disabilities or unmet learning needs. The first section provides information and …
Snakes and Ladders for Learning: Learning Disabilities Edition
This game fosters an awareness of the impact of learning disabilities. It is designed for literacy practitioners, tutors and instructors. Complete instructions on how to set up and play the …
Self-advocacy for People with Learning Disabilities: A Guide for Adult Literacy Educators
This resource for adult literacy practitioners provides an introduction to self-advocacy. It includes a collection of tools and worksheets to help adults with learning disabilities identify and develop their unique …
Making Memory Stick
This resource consists of a digital story on memory and what helps improve memory, particularly in seniors. The tip sheet summarizes the information in the digital story, including good practices …
Literacy & Digital Storytelling
This video is a digital story about creating digital stories. It describes a workshop with Colin Ford and how learners became involved in creating digital stories. It is intended for …
Learning disabilities: simple assessment and proven teaching techniques
This resource contains tools from an Orton-Gillingham Multisensory workshop conducted at the Northern Lights College, Chetwynd. Workshop presenters were Gloria Olafson and Stephanie Lindstrom of the Fraser Lake chapter of …
Addressing learning disabilities with the medicine wheel
This video shows how the Ts-zil Learning Centre uses the four elements of the medicine wheel to address the needs of First Nations students with learning disabilities. This was created …
How to Design and Host Community Conversations about Learning Disabilities
This resource describes a step-by-step process for creating a discussion-based workshop on learning disabilities. Detailed examples from two workshops illustrate the steps in action. This was created by Pamela Auffray …
Literacy at Work: Information for Employers about Reading, Writing and Math Skills
Written for employers, this booklet briefly reviews how literacy affects work and what employers can do to improve employee literacy skills that will benefit both themselves and their employees. Developed …